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I had no movement what so all, it just suddenly happened after trying for hours every night. It takes a lot of focus of the mind and is mentally stressful. Your dad can't simply look at his foot and say move, he has to grit his teeth and really go nuts inside his mind trying to get it to move.

Also range/touching/e-stim I think helps. Also try cold. Find an ice pack, put it on his leg, and then tell him to try to move his foot. This is something I discovered years ago after I got movement to try to get my other leg to move. It would work sometimes. Worth a shot.

What the doctors say isn't true exactly. It took 3 months for me to move anything and from there the progress was slow. I still use a wheelchair as my main transportation but I"ve regained quite a bit of function as well. I recommend your dad continue to try to move things he can't. I use to just spend hours a night trying to move my limbs which I think helped make the connection.

Also if you can get him to some program like Project Walk in Southern California that would help as well although its not cheap.

On Sept 30th, my Dad suffered a fall and damaged (compressed) his spinal cord at C3-C4. After the operation, he could shrug his shoulders and wiggle his toes, but was vent dependent. Prior to the operation, he could also wiggle his toes. My Dad became non-responsive (kept his eyes shut and was grimacing) and didn't seem to be able to wiggle his toes when asked, and even stopped shrugging his shoulders. The doctors are saying that the toe-wiggling is merely "reflective" and that he is "complete." However, in the past 2-3 days, I've been giving him foot massages and trying to move his limbs -- and he shrugged for me and wiggled the toes on his left foot. Any experiences out there?